Banning the printing press in Europe would have stopped the 30 years war.

Somehow I don't think anyone here would approve of the long term consequences.

The end result of this will be that everyone needs to give their real name and address to view social media.

Anything you say or watch that the current government doesn't like will result in police coming for a chat.

That's a bad analogy, more like :

Printing Press <=> The Internet

but

Social Media <=> Some specific forms of (mostly centralized) publishing